Of Quintains, Harts, and Lionesses: Impure Melancholy As Shakespeare Liked It

Earthbound Humors: An Ecocritical Approach to Melancholy in As You Like It and Hamlet

Impure altruism and impure selfishness

Altruism refers to a willingness to benefit others, even at one’s own expense. In contrast, selfishness refers to prioritizing one’s own interests with no consideration for others. However, even if an agent is selfish, he might nevertheless act as if he were altruistic out of selfish concerns triggered when his action is observed; that is, he might seek to feel pride in acting altruistically an...

Impure Altruism and Impure Selfishness: Online Appendix

We provide an extention of GU model that incorporates a decision maker who is averse to inequality of allocations among other agents. We also provide a detaled discussion on the experiments on dictator games with an exit option.

the innovation of a statistical model to estimate dependable rainfall (dr) and develop it for determination and classification of drought and wet years of iran

آب حاصل از بارش منبع تأمین نیازهای بی شمار جانداران به ویژه انسان است و هرگونه کاهش در کم و کیف آن مستقیماً حیات موجودات زنده را تحت تأثیر منفی قرار می دهد. نوسان سال به سال بارش از ویژگی های اساسی و بسیار مهم بارش های سالانه ایران محسوب می شود که آثار زیان بار آن در تمام عرصه های اقتصادی، اجتماعی و حتی سیاسی- امنیتی به نحوی منعکس می شود. چون میزان آب ناشی از بارش یکی از مولفه های اصلی برنامه ...

Melancholy and society

WOLF LEPENIES, Melancholy and society, transl. Jeremy Gaines and Doris Jones, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. xviii, 253, £31.95 (0-674-56468-5). Melancholy has always been a catchall phrase as universal as the human condition: widespread, if disparate, in every epoch; an affliction of the young and old that has been virtually incapable of adequate definition; ...